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by Noam Chomsky

Modular Approaches Study Mind

The questions raised by Descartes more than three hundred years ago about the interrelationship of the body and mind remain largely unanswered today. These questions are at the core of the modern study of cognitive psychology, a field which attempts rational analysis of human disciplines ranging from philosophy and psychology through linguistics, artificial intelligence, nThe questions raised by Descartes more than three hundred years ago about the interrelationship of the body and mind remain largely unanswered today. These questions are at the core of the modern study of cognitive psychology, a field which attempts rational analysis of human disciplines ranging from philosophy and psychology through linguistics, artificial intelligence, neurology, and biology. In "Modular Approaches to the Study of the Mind" Noam Chomsky uses the historical background and nature of cognitive psychology to enable us better to understand several important problems of human thought and perception. This title offers the formal remarks of Chomsky in his San Diego State University Distinguished Graduate Research Lecture, including the give-and-take of a colloquium following the ecture. It is enhanced by a comprehensive bibliography of works by and about Chomsky, which in itself constitutes a profile of the vital intellectual milieu in which he has worked for over thirty years. Originally published in 1984....more

Avram Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, political activist, author, and lecturer. He is an Institute Professor and professor emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Chomsky is credited with the creation of the theory of generative grammar, considered to be one of the most significant contributions to the field of linguistics made in the 20th century. HAvram Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, political activist, author, and lecturer. He is an Institute Professor and professor emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Chomsky is credited with the creation of the theory of generative grammar, considered to be one of the most significant contributions to the field of linguistics made in the 20th century. He also helped spark the cognitive revolution in psychology through his review of B. F. Skinner's Verbal Behavior, in which he challenged the behaviorist approach to the study of behavior and language dominant in the 1950s. His naturalistic approach to the study of language has affected the philosophy of language and mind. He is also credited with the establishment of the Chomsky hierarchy, a classification of formal languages in terms of their generative power. Beginning with his critique of the Vietnam War in the 1960s, Chomsky has become more widely known for his media criticism and political activism, and for his criticism of the foreign policy of the United States and other governments.

According to the Arts and Humanities Citation Index in 1992, Chomsky was cited as a source more often than any other living scholar during the 1980–1992 time period, and was the eighth-most cited scholar in any time period....more